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Sue and labour clause

may be incurred by the assured or his agents to avert the loss. The clause does not cover general average losses and contributions and salvage charges, (English) Marine Insurance Act, 1906, s. 78 (2), and see Aitchison … in a policy of marine insurance which was introduced to make it clear that the assured and his agents or servants, e.g., master and crew, can take every step to recover insured property in peril without loss

Specific performance

specifically executed, are these:- (a) The contract must be entered into by competent parties, or their lawfully authorized agents. The general rule is, that all parties who can bind themselves at law are competent to enter into

good faith

of every contract or duty under its purview. The law also generally requires good faith of fiduciaries and agents acting on behalf of their principals. There is also a requirement under the National Labor Relations Act that … of any defect in the title. In section 1-201 of the Uniform Commercial Code good faith is defined generally as “honesty in fact in the conduct or transaction concerned.” Article 2 of the U.C.C. says “good faith

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Vice-Consul

Vice-Consul, a consular officer, which expression by the Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 12 (20), includes consul-general, consul, vice-consul, and any person for the time authorized to discharge their duties, and also consular-agent; see CONSUL; a sheriff.

National Bank

under the general law, by individual stockholders, with their own capital, by private gain and managed by officers, agents and employees of their own selection; a quasi-public institution under a sort of State Control.

Cinematograph

to which the public are not admitted [s. 7 (4)]. The exhibition of films by dealers or their agents to intending purchasers or hirers does not amount to an exhibition within the meaning of the Act, Attorney-General

VerbarMateria medica

Material or substance used in the composition of remedies a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine

principal

for him or her subject to his or her general control or instruction : one from whom an agent derives authority to act compare fiduciary b : one who commits a crime or instigates, encourages, or assists

Custom-house agents

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Universal agent

rerum the complete disposer of all the rights and property of the principal. The law will not from general expressions, however broad, infer the existence of any such universal agency; but it will rather construe them as … Universal agent, one who is appointed to do all the acts which the principal can personally do and which he

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